A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 421
eair doth issue forth with a strong and lasting violence. These are fre-quently used for the exciting and contracting of heat in the melting ofglasses or metals. They may also be contrived to be serviceable for sun-dry other pleasant uses, as for the moving of sails in a chimney corner,the motion… … Chap. 3.] Smelting Ore with the blast of an Bolipile. 397 of his Mundus Subterraneus, page 203.) We do not remember to havemet with a figure of an eolipile applied to the fusing of glass or metal,except in the Aula Subterranea of Lazarus Erckers (or Erckern) on Me-tallurgy, published in German, in…
Pumping machinery
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